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3 unusual facts about James S. Simmons


James S. Simmons

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress.

Simmons was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second United States Congresses (March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1913).

He moved to Roanoke, Virginia, in 1880 and engaged in the real estate business.


3 Geezers!

3 Geezers! is an American comedy film starring J. K. Simmons, Tim Allen, Scott Caan, Breckin Meyer, Randy Couture and Basil Hoffman.

5th United States Colored Cavalry

Lieutenant Colonel James S. Brisbin and his second in command, Carpenter, led their dismounted soldiers forward toward the Confederate defensive works.

Albanians in Ukraine

Olson, James S., An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires.

Alliance for School Choice

Clint Bolick, who was part of the legal team that argued the Zelman v. Simmons-Harris school voucher case before the U.S. Supreme Court, was appointed as the Alliance's first president in 2004.

Ashbel Green

They had three children: Robert Stockton Green (1787–1813), Jacob Green (1790–1842), and James Sproat Green (1792–1862), the latter of whom served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and was the father of Robert Stockton Green (1831–1895), Governor of New Jersey.

Benjamin C. Truman

When the Civil War began, he became a war correspondent, then declined a commission in 1862 to become a staff aide to Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee, and Generals James S. Negley, John H. King and Kenner Garrard.

Calvin E. Simmons

Simmons has been honored by the naming of the Calvin Simmons Theatre at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, California.

Confederate settlements in British Honduras

Historian and author Donald C. Simmons, Jr., published a book in 2001 entitled Confederate Settlements in British Honduras about this episode in American and British Honduran history.

Conference of Chief Justices

The first meeting, organized by the Council of State Governments and funded by private foundations, and held in St. Louis, Missouri, was held at the behest of New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons and Missouri Chief Justice Laurance M. Hyde, who was elected as the first chairman by the representatives of the 44 states in attendance.

Culp's Hill

He sent a small party to reconnoiter, and they encountered the 7th Indiana Infantry of the I Corps, part of Brig. Gen. James S. Wadsworth's division, which had been in the rear guarding the corps trains and was now linked up with the Iron Brigade, digging in following their fierce battle on Seminary Ridge.

Delia Bacon

James Shapiro interprets her theory both in terms of the cultural tensions of her historical milieu, and as consequential on an intellectual and emotional crisis that unfolded as she both broke with her Puritan upbringing and developed a deep confidential relationship with a fellow lodger, Alexander MacWhorter, a young theology graduate from Yale, which was subsequently interrupted by her brother.

Elaine Chao

The eldest of six daughters, Chao was born to Ruth Mulan Chu Chao (趙朱木蘭 Zhào Zhū Mùlán), a historian, and Dr. James S.C. Chao (趙錫成博士 Zhào Xīchéng), who began his career as a merchant mariner and later, after getting established in New York, built a successful shipping company (Foremost Shipping Co.).

Heldref Publications

In January 2010, the Heldref board transferred publishing rights for the foundation’s two remaining publications (World Affairs and Demokratizatsiya) to the independent World Affairs Institute headed by Heldref’s former executive director, James S. Denton.

James Carson

James S. Carson (1874–1960), American corporate executive and Spanish–American War veteran

James Lynch

James S. Lynch (1841–1894), Manitoba physician and political figure

James S. Albus

From June 2008 to 2009 he was a Senior Fellow of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, where he worked toward advancing the understanding of the computational and representational mechanisms of the human brain.

James S. Clarkson

James S. Clarkson (May 17, 1842 – May 30, 1918) was born in Brookville, Indiana, but raised a native of Polk County, Iowa.

James S. Economou

He is currently the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles where he is also a surgical oncologist and tumor immunologist.

James S. Free

Free was chairman of the Standing Committee of Correspondents of the Congressional Press Galleries and was president of the Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as a member of its hall of fame.

Free served in the U.S. Navy in the Caribbean and Pacific during World War II and retired from the Naval Reserve as a captain in 1968.

James S. Green

While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Territories (35th and 36th Congresses).

James S. Hirsch

James S. Hirsch is an American journalist and best-selling author who has written extensively about sports, race, and American culture and whose most recent book is the first authorized biography of Willie Mays.

He was a reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and his first book was the best-selling Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter.

James S. Jackson

Jackson raised a cavalry company and was elected colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Cavalry when it was formed on December 13, 1861.

James S. Johnston

Johnston was born in Church Hill, Mississippi in 1843, the son of a local attorney and cotton planter.

James S. Martin

James Slattin Martin, Jr. (1920–2002), project manager for the Viking program

James S. Mitchell

Mitchell was elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress.

James S. Moody, Jr.

He was elected circuit judge of Florida's Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (Hillsborough County), serving from 1995 to 2000.

James S. Pula

James S. Pula (born 18 February 1946, Utica, New York) is an award-winning Polish-American historian, professor, author, and Polonia activist.

James S. Rains

After the war Rains settled in Wood County, Texas and later Kaufman County, Texas where he became a farmer, railroad promoter, lawyer, and political organizer/candidate.

He died on May 19, 1880 at his home and is buried at Lee Cemetery in Seagoville, Dallas County.

James S. Robinson

Robinson was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1881, to January 12, 1885, when he resigned.

James S. Rollins

Issue of $166,000 in bonds to build the new School of Mines at Rolla (called Missouri University of Science and Technology as of 2008), liquidate University debt, complete the Science Building (called Switzler Hall as of 2008), and add to the University's permanent endowment (1872).

James S. Sherman

James Schoolcraft Sherman (October 24, 1855 – October 30, 1912) was a United States Representative from New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States (1909–1912), under President William Howard Taft.

In 1908, Sherman was nominated as the Republican candidate for Vice President on the ticket with William Howard Taft.

At a time when the Republican party was divided over protective tariffs, Sherman sided with McKinley and the conservative branch, defending the gold standard against the potentially inflationary 'free silver'.

James S. Stevenson

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress.

James S. Sutterlin

He spent 13 years working in various capacities for the Secretariat of the United Nations, has authored and co-authored several UN-themed books, and has worked closely with former UN Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in drafting the latter’s memoirs, Pilgrimage for Peace (1997).

James S.C. Chao

Chao was born in a small, rural farming village in Jiading District outside Shanghai, China.

James Wall

James S. Wall (born 1964), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

The Directors of the KITP since its beginning have been Walter Kohn (1979–1984), Robert Schrieffer (1984–1989), James S. Langer (1989–1995), James Hartle (1995–1997), David Gross (1997–2012), and Lars Bildsten (2012–present).

Kenosha Elks Club

Zalmon G. Simmons, founder of the Simmons Bedding Company, was among the men that made up the Building Committee.

Philip Klinkner

Klinkner is currently the James S. Sherman Professor of Government at Hamilton College, where he has also served in administrative positions.

San Diego Free Press

The paper made powerful enemies in San Diego by running a series of investigative exposés, largely based on rumor, on the corruption of San Diego's richest and most powerful, including tycoon C. Arnholdt Smith, publisher James S. Copley, and race track owner John Alessio.

Strain gauge

Invented by Edward E. Simmons and Arthur C. Ruge in 1938, the most common type of strain gauge consists of an insulating flexible backing which supports a metallic foil pattern.

The Music Never Stopped

Based on Oliver Sacks' essay The Last Hippie, the film tells the father-son relationship between Henry Sawyer (J.K. Simmons) and his son, Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci), who suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories.

Thomas Mellon

On August 22, 1843, he married Sarah Jane Negley, daughter of Jacob and Barbara and sister of James S. Negley, after a long—and frustrating—courtship.


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